hbo poisoning bittorrent

according to this article on techreport.com, hbo is poisoning bittorrent by running bogus peers which claim to have a file, but actually send out bunk data chunks (which slows the progress of the download).

pretty smart. dirty, but smart.

--cid

the life artificial

this pdf tells about the plan for artificially spawning new life. interesting.

--cid

0wn your nucleic acids

msh (microsoft command shell)

arstechnica has an article about the new microsoft command shell (msh) and i've gotta say i'm impressed. it looks like somebody over at redmond actually thought about it.

--cid